“The world might have blessed his memory had he not carried one virtue to too great an extreme. The feeling of justice made him a robber and a murderer.”
— “Michael Kohlhaas” by Heinrich Von Kleist

Blackstone and Skyboat Media present Michael Kohlhaas & Other Tales of Faith, Guilt, and Retribution, an original compilation of the tales of Heinrich Von Kleist.

This compilation features the title novella Michael Kohlhaas, the tale of a man forced to crime in order to gain back the horses that were stolen from him; “The Earthquake in Chile,” a love story that takes place in the chaos of the 1647 Santiago earthquake; along with five other stories and a dramatized reading of selected scenes from The Prince of Homburg.

Full Contents:

1. Introduction by Stefan Rudnicki
2. Michael Kohlhaas: From an Old Chronicle
3. “St. Cecilia,” or, “The Power of Music: A Legend”
4. “The Beggarwoman of Locarno”
5. “The Foundling”
6. The Marquise of O
7. “The Earthquake in Chile”
8. “The Duel”
9. Scenes from The Prince of Homburg

Originally published in German between 1803–1822 and in English between 1844–1914.